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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski (My Summer of Love), this story of faith
and despair is gracefully told, its simple, uncluttered spaces and
luminous black-and-white photography harking back to Robert Bresson.
Innocent young Ida (Agata Trzebuchowska), raised in a Polish convent and
preparing to take her vows, is persuaded by the Mother Superior to make
contact with her only known relative, an aunt (Agata Kulesza) who
reveals to the young novitiate that her father was Jewish and her
parents both died in the Nazi occupation. Hoping to uncover the details,
the two women set off for the family's hometown, where the romantic
attentions of a handsome young sax player in the hotel bar prove almost
as troubling to Ida as her parents' demise.